Maybe, after eight years or so, we will not be particularly moved by, say, Stevie Wonder playing for the president and first lady. But for now, we will enjoy this pleasant novelty, especially when your Barack Obama is singing along. MORE »

• Frank Luntz made some depressing jokes about Blackberrys and Stevie Wonder and at the Republican Governor’s Beach Week thing. These jokes did elicit “scattered laughs”—which Ignited the Base—and therefore Stevie Wonder/A BlackBerry Curve will be your 2012 GOP ticket. [Jonathan Martin]
• Norm Coleman’s finances are going to be investigated, illegal gifts in the late Stevensian style or somesuch; Coleman says he is “eager” to be probed. [CNN Political Ticker]
• Sarah Palin will run for Senate, in the future or whenever really, like if there’s a special election. Obviously, immediately after Palin said this, the GOP Senatorial Committee denied that this is a possibility. [Politico]
• The mystery of who said that illegal thing about Obama’s immigrant aunt is solved! But the identity of “the Bob Novak” will remain shrouded in secrecy, forever. [TPMMuckraker]
• Saul Anuzis is running for RNC Chair, and he has a sign that manages to glow in the dark, on the Internet, to prove it. [Marc Ambinder]

This is really shaping up as the (only) musical stadium show of the week! Unofficial sources say Stevie “Used To Be So Awesome” Wonder, that annoying Wilheim-Am! and Sheryl Crow will play music at the Invesco High-Times Field at Mile High Stadium tomorrow evening. What a lineup! Also: The previously mentioned Bruce Springsteen and John Francis Bongiovi, Jr., may or may not perform their “New Jersey Trilogy” ballet for the middle aged. There is someone else we’ve literally never heard of, called “John Legend,” who will masturbate with a cactus. [Denver Post/Politico]

* President Bush leaves Mexico after a few good burritos but no agreements on immigration. [NYT]
* Al G gets a show of support from President Bush, says “booyakasha” to that punk bitch John Sununu. [WP, NYT]
* Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confesses to that thing everybody knows he did. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT]
* Iraq debate in Senate gives Joe Biden gas. [NYT]
* John McCain tries to get his campaign to only suck at the level it sucked in 2000. [WP]
* Republicans consider leaving behind No Child Left Behind. [WP]
* 2008 candidates keenly aware of the importance of pandering to fire fighters. [WP]
* Members of Congress can listen to Stevie Wonder, but they’ll never hear him. [WP]

It’s a good week to be a teenage girl in DC. Sex In The City’s Chris Noth was hanging out downtown, and Jordan Catalano Jared Leto was, like, totally in Dupont, or something.

Stevie Wonder was also seen, but he didn’t see you, and neither did his security guard. These and more of the hoi-polloi that we lovingly call “famous for DC,” after the jump.

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